Simba's bike den

Looking good. More shed building content too?

Not yet, I’m currently on an opposite trajectory of yours where it’s getting increasingly cluttered. It’s too cold to spend time out there so that will wait until spring

Heatpump and some insulation will sort that

Bought one of these frames late last year. Funny they are all slightly different in their airbrushing. Looks great how you’ve built this up.

Edit. The Lemond

Yes, both in paint but also in quality. The lugs on the large frame that I got the forks from, are much simpler, same with the tube profiles, suggesting that it may look similar but the tubing is in the other end of the spectrum.

The beat up one with the campagnolo bb is the donor frame

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It's just plain sizeism!

Strange. Just had a look at mine and it’s also different to both yours.
Mine is 58cm

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Does your BB have the lemond signature on either? Mine does but it’s be really badly touched up you can see it on left of the bb photo

I think yours matches mine paint wise, and the bb lug looks the same with that bit of webbing or what you would call it. Mine doesn’t have anything on the bb but it is engraved on the brake bridge. There are more pictures on page 1

Do you have the original fork?

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Yep I have the same rear brake panto, the bb panto is very badly painted and filled it’s hard to see. I have the forks too

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Just realised different panto on my forks to yours too.

Thank for sharing the pictures.

Your panto matches the logo on my ST, so that is surely the original one. Mine is close enough and also from excell so I suspect they might be the same, but only a weight will tell and I will never be able to find another one long enough for ahead, so I’d rather not know 🙉

It looks like yours is also chromed on the chainstays. Please feel free to share a full frame side shot whenever you have time, I’m curious to see it.
What are your build plans?

To keep the economy going I’ve ordered a set of bars and a frame pump.

The logos came off in a second using nail polish remover, then tried to put it on the frame only to learn it was too small by a few cm.
Bars were also a panic buy because “only one left in stock” so I ordered 42 instead of my preferred width of 44. I guess I’ll feel smug when I can really feel those aero gains

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Logo removal

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I’ll put up some photos tomorrow. Strange just how many differences there are in just the three we have.

I bought it as was a reasonable price, and always wanted one, tbh not this model but a z one. Slowly selling off what it came with with a hope it would cost not much then decide. Lots of other projects in line though. How does it ride?

I honestly don’t know. Only had a short test ride before the weather turned and I put it in the shed for the winter. But it felt like a bike and it made me happy 😃 Spring will tell.

These came for the Jamis. I don’t really need the front, but the silver in 32h were almost impossible to find so bought a pair.

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30 seconds and some nail polish remover later

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That was quick

nice velo orange hubs

Now that you put it like that I realize that they are a bit Grand Cru 🙈

Just a small update.
Wheels have been built with the silver novatecs, turns out this rear hub model requires me to remove the axle to fit the cassette, not sure if the walls on my cassette tool are too thick or if this happens to everyone, but it doesn’t seem like the best design.

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Having spent way too much time on here, I was hyped about finally jumping on the steel and full mudguards wagon, so I cannibalized the levers and the chainset from my cx to go onto the Jamis ready to put the cx into retirement.

Turns out a road double didn’t clear the chainstays as it was intended for a triple, “small fix” I thought and rummaged through my parts to find a very pleasing deore square taper chainset and a narrow wide to go with it. Installed the shiny new wheels and faffed with the mudguards until I though they looked OK.
Then moved the levers over, only to have issues with the disc rotors not clearing the pads.

At this point I had been without a bike for more than a week and we were coming up on a week of vacation where I would have plenty of opportunity to ride in a new and nice area, so I decided to abort mission and built the cx back up again.

This is as far as I got with the Jamis.
Being frustrated and annoyed for a week because the build had stalled, made me realize a few things:

A) I don’t need mudguards. I don’t cycle with a club at any fixed times, participate in races or commute. If it’s raining I just go at another time.

B) I don’t need dynamo lights. Like before, I know how to plan my rides and will just make sure my lights are charged before a ride. I see the advantage if you are a commuter or do long distance stuff at night, which I don’t.

C) Who the fuck puts a 11s groupset on a winter bike? Next year I will get a cheap alu road bike like the caad optimo for winter training. It will be specced with 8s Claris, that is so cheap I will laugh out loud when I remove the rusted drivetrain and replace it all, for the same price as one 11s cassette.

D) never mess with the bike you actually ride. Build up a n+1, so you have overlap, but never gaps. I knew this, but ignored it. Lesson learned.

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And here’s a few pictures of the cx enjoying life and laughing at the Jamis.

It has bar tape now.

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